Published: October 21st, 2011 at 1:29 pm ET
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Oct. 21 — The Wall Street Journal’s Juro Osawa reports on the 57.5 microsievert per hour discovery near Tokyo:
“Officials in the city of Kashiwa [18 miles northeast of Tokyo] said the spot, about one square yard, in an empty lot owned by the city, registered levels as high as 57.5 microsieverts per hour—meaning a person who stood at the spot for a year would get a dose of radiation 25 times higher than what the government sets for evacuation.”
“The radiation readings appeared to increase the deeper investigators dug into the ground, something that suggests a radioactive substance may be buried there.”
“The officials said they stopped the dig temporarily about one foot down, when they hit some tree roots.”
“The lot where the hot spot was found was previously the location of a city dormitory, the officials said.”
Read More: Japanese Find Another Radioactive ‘Hot Spot’ Near Tokyo
Published: October 21st, 2011 at 1:29 pm ET
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Earthquake on TEPCAM 2:39:26. 3-4 and areas around steaming away….
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Nothing on USGS, camera shook, no heavy winds, and no personnel that I saw….anybody know if there was a quake?
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Nice to meet you FAF (picture
In this 13 second clip, plants DO looks bad
http://www.youtube.com/fuku1live
The one before looks esp smoky 3+ min (it’s not fog)
http://www.youtube.com/fuku1live#p/u/1/9NFctOjNC2Q
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Hi back, nasty night for sure, although I still can’t find the source of the camera shake that looked like an earthquake.
I wish that was me, lol. That’s Nathan Fillion playing Captain Malcolm Reynolds from the TV series Firefly. I liked it because
a) it makes me look good, and his stunned expression is appropriate
b) his ship was Serenity, which we all could use right now, and
c) the quote from the start of the show was “After the Earth was used up, we found a new solar system”
If only we could…..
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Oh yes, fitting avatar. And we sure COULD use Serenity.
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hi farawayfan – I found your 3.3 quake now and put a note into the cam-thread – http://enenews.com/fukushima-webcam-discussion-thread/comment-page-2#comment-145085
thanks for life-notifying
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Thank you, good to confirm I’m not craz…well I wouldn’t go that far, good to confirm my eyes still work!
I saw the flash you mentioned, so quick I wasn’t sure if it was gamma artifact or something else….perhaps the Nukel can puzzle it out….
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Exposure Calculations
0.83 per Day,
302.43 per Year,
18145.62 per Lifetime
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Those are in millisievert
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New video on soil tests in Melbourne Australia.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t5Vh5cQr50
Low readings but they stay around. Same old story…. wish I had my counter before the fact
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I am going to take my air filter out of my car and do a similar test. My car windscreen scares me, so just wondering what the air filter is like?
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Your above comment is one I’ve seen before. “if only I had taken readings before” At least your keeping track now. TY
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Also readings that stay seem to be increasing! Dust on windscreens seems to be the most potent.
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Hi Toadmac, been meaning to answer for a while now. I was wondering if your radiation readings are due to RADON gas which would be coming from that accursed Olympic Dam uranium mine in South Australia? When you say the readings drop off quickly in your samples of rainwater, could it be because the dissolved radon is evaporating off, rather than meaning the isotope has a short half life? I see that they are expanding that hellhole now, isn’t that nice, just what the world needs, more uranium. I am in Queensland, just west of brisbane.
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After a lot of research I have come to the conclusion the high readings I have got are radon gas? They were still very high and since that 2 weeks rain samples have dropped to about 0.6 uSv/hr, however the readings drop off rapidly. The soil and sludge samples are a different story as they keep reading the same for days? Sometimes they read more than double background radiation! To my knowledge this is not radon and is something else radioactive? Needed a counter 6 months before this crap to make it more meaningful.
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57.5 microsieverts coming to your neighbourhood soon!! I don’t think this will get better over time as more high readings come to light…. it can only get worse!!
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Bottlegate II returns from the depths of government insanity.
Hidden dialog: “Hey Hiromatsu…go get some more old radioactive crap from the military piles so we can discover it tomorrow under the roots! Some more of that old radium paint will be fine”
SP: Ding dong…the Three Stooges couldn’t perform better.
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No kidding…tree roots is a pretty lame excuse to buy time to plant a cesium pellet….
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heres a little comparison with chernobly dispersion levels today….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QH_bpKq-ns&feature=related
@3min 36sec in chernobly plant reading today = 3.55 microsieverts
@2min 19 in red forest reads 10,000 microsieverts, or more……
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According to http://www.iris.edu, there was an earthquake 6.1 today.
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That seems closer to the camera shake I saw than 3.3, but then again, it’s impossible to gauge an earthquake by a camera shake…..even if it’s a camera we’ve all been staring at for months.
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Does anyone remember this?
http://enenews.com/june-30-meeting-revealed-depleted-uranium-storage-facility-burned-after-quake-contained-765-kg-du
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Yes I have studied the Chisso bunch since the early 1970s for their Minamata mercury poisoning.
Small headline discrepancy: 1686 pounds of DU is the correct conversion, not 1800 pounds.
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Yes, many of us do. But there’s so much radioactive cr*p to follow. So much. So much…..
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